I got a schlenk line and want to get more familiar with it while doing cool stuff with LN2.
I made a sorbet that was supposed to be extra smooth due to the ice crystals being smaller when fast-frozen with LN2. I never had sorbet so I didn't have previous experience to compare it to, but it was tasty enough to want to repeat.
Now I want to try extracting the juice under inert gas to keep the nutrients in the juice in pristine condition.
Anyone have any ideas how to do that? I specifically am a little stumped how to macerate the berries in a sealed container. Maybe a tube with a hydraulic piston to crush the juice out. Or something magnetic that I can control from outside the vessel. Or maybe like, ceramic shot in a jar that can pummel the berries like an aerosol can.
Or maybe just vacuum seal them in a bag and smash em? But I'm not sure how I'd get the juice out of the bag without air exposure. Maybe it's enough to just freeze the bag and then transfer the juice in solid pieces while frozen?
Next steps would be filtering out the solids and concentrating it without heat.
I made a sorbet that was supposed to be extra smooth due to the ice crystals being smaller when fast-frozen with LN2. I never had sorbet so I didn't have previous experience to compare it to, but it was tasty enough to want to repeat.
Now I want to try extracting the juice under inert gas to keep the nutrients in the juice in pristine condition.
Anyone have any ideas how to do that? I specifically am a little stumped how to macerate the berries in a sealed container. Maybe a tube with a hydraulic piston to crush the juice out. Or something magnetic that I can control from outside the vessel. Or maybe like, ceramic shot in a jar that can pummel the berries like an aerosol can.
Or maybe just vacuum seal them in a bag and smash em? But I'm not sure how I'd get the juice out of the bag without air exposure. Maybe it's enough to just freeze the bag and then transfer the juice in solid pieces while frozen?
Next steps would be filtering out the solids and concentrating it without heat.
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